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It’s raining for once….

16th November 2008 by Helena 6 Comments  

""After almost four months of constant sunshine the children and I were amazed this morning when we walked out of the house and got soaked. At first I assumed someone was washing the terrace, which would be an odd thing to do at 7.30 in the morning, but not as odd as rain in Abu Dhabi.

The whole city took on a new look, the drivers a new attitude; suddenly people were driving with care, in fact they were driving so carefully and slowly that we were late for school. Which by the way didn’t matter because so was everyone else and the courtyard was flooded.

The roads looked like oil slicks, we saw one yellow corvette (such a bad colour for a corvette) snake-slide its way up 19th street. In our sturdy Landcrusier we were fine. People might buy four-wheel drives here to take to the desert, but they are jolly useful too on the one rainy day of the year.

Actually it stopped after about an hour. The whole place smelt fresh and clean. It was lovely, like a spring day in England.

The other news is that Bea has written a blog she would like me to share with you. So here it is.  It seems I can happily retire.

mummy
i love our
message you
sent me i love it
so much it is so nice
i hant to send you a blog
about my future that you cod
put on youse but if its not god delete
it i don’t fink it was not very god but please
iven if you don’t like it please do the carection’s

my blog .
one day olivia ask me if i can lend her my laptop
i sayd  her yes .
but the ader day i ask her to lend me her book and
she told me only if you lend me our laptop and i told her
NO because all the time i ned her to lend me her staf
she told NO only if you lend me our laptop thats the end of my blog.
Copyright: Helena Frith Powell 2008


Filed Under: Abu Dhabi, Children, blog -->, writing Tagged With: raining

6 thoughts on It's raining for once....

  • Patricia Rodriguez says:
    16th November 2008 at 2:55 pm

    Bea is just adorable!

  • helena says:
    17th November 2008 at 4:21 am

    this is Bea – thank you x

  • mimi says:
    18th November 2008 at 1:10 am

    So, so sweet, mimi

  • bea says:
    18th November 2008 at 5:02 pm

    hello!thank you very much for your comment i like it very much i hope you give me a other comment again

  • Josephine says:
    19th November 2008 at 11:38 am

    Bea’s Blog is wonderful. Hope to see more! Oh dear, I could not live in Abu Dhabi as exotic as it sounds. I love the rain so much and would pine for it terribly. I am happiest when it rains every day! x

  • bea says:
    23rd November 2008 at 11:31 am

    thiss is bea you will hear lots more from me and its no probleme if you don’t live in abu-dhabi you will hear about me allot

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Helena Frith Powell was born in Sweden to a Swedish mother and Italian father, but grew up mainly in England. She is the author of eleven books, translated into several languages including Chinese and Russian. She wrote the French Mistress column The Sunday Times about life in France for several years. She is a regular contributor to the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, The Times, Daily Telegraph, Tatler Magazine and Harper’s Bazaar.

Helena has been the editor of four magazines, including M Magazine, a supplement for the Abu Dhabi based National Newspaper and FIVE, a high-end fashion glossy, also published in Abu Dhabi. Helena was also editor in chief of 360 Life, a quarterly glossy magazine published with the Sports 360 Newspaper in Dubai, part of the Chalhoub Group.

Helena contributes regularly to UK-based newspapers and magazines and holds a Masters in Creative Writing from the University of Cambridge. Helena is also working on a thriller called Thin Ice that will be published in spring 2021 as well as a novel about the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield called Sense of an Echo.

Her latest non-fiction work Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles came out in hardback in 2016 and in paperback in April 2018.

Helena, who was educated at Durham University, lives in the Languedoc region of France with her husband Rupert and their three children.

Bibliography

More France Please, we’re British; Gibson Square 2004

Two Lipsticks and a Lover 2005; Gibson Square (hardback)

All You Need to be Impossibly French; (US version of above) Penguin 2006

Two Lipsticks and a Lover; Arrow Books (paperback) 2007

Ciao Bella Gibson Square; (hardback) 2006

Ciao Bella Gibson Square; (paperback) 2007

So Chic! (French version of Two Lipsticks) Leduc Editions 2008 (also translated into Chinese, Russian and Thai)

More, More France; Gibson Square 2009

To Hell in High Heels; Arrow Books 2009 (also translated into Polish)

The Viva Mayr Diet; Harper Collins 2009

Love in a Warm Climate; Gibson Square 2011

The Ex-Factor; Gibson Square 2013

Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles; Gibson Square 2016

The Arnolfini Marriage; Amazon Kindle December 2016

Smart Women Don’t Get Wrinkles (paperback); Gibson Square spring 2018

The Longest Night; Gibson Square spring 2019

 

 

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